For decades, Christian scholarship has been shaped by worldview approaches that frame faith primarily as an intellectual system. Re-imagining the Kingdom invites a starting point rooted in desire, formation, and the embodied practices that shape the Christian imagination. Chapters explore how Christian scholarship might move beyond worldview approaches to embrace practices that cultivate trust, credibility, relational presence, and spiritual depth. Emerging from a dialogic unconference hosted by the Christianity and Communication Studies Network by the same name, and drawing on the insights of James K. A. Smith, this volume gathers scholars and educators who are rethinking academic life through the...

Reuben "Uncle Bud" Robinson, born a moonshiner's son in Tennessee and converted under the preaching of a traveling circuit rider while working as a Texas ranch hand, persevered to become the Mark Twain of the early twentieth-century holiness movement. And, at the height of his ministry, he was dubbed "the most popular man in America." This book explains how a man who originally came from nothing eventually came to personify an entire subset of American Christianity and what it means for Christianity and evangelicalism today. The author examines how "Uncle Bud's" preaching brought together people from all...

This book aims to change the Christian conversation regarding civility, from techniques about achieving civility to the conditions necessary for civility to exist. As such, the authors in this volume explore the work of Dr. Calvin Troup, president of Geneva College, and his insights regarding humility and hospitality--presented at a keynote address at a conference--and interrogate the ideas that serve as its foundation. The goal of the book is to create a conversation across the broad spectrum of Christian experience and voices from within secular culture in order to explore, in a robust fashion, the possibilities for hospitality, humility, and...